‘We Have To Ask Ourselves Very Profound & Tough Questions – Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that South Africa is at a “tipping point” with the struggling economy posing a threat to the country’s democracy.

Delivering the keynote address at a conference reviewing the past 25 years of democracy, he said that while government had managed to turn around a troubled economy inherited in 1994, it had failed to ensure everyone benefited.

Academia, business, and civil society have gathered at the University of Johannesburg for a two-day debate on the state of democracy in South Africa.

“Over the course of the last 25 years, we have been less successful in addressing the structural faults in our economy,” Ramaphosa conceded.